On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Progress in these types of situations nearly always comes from people > with enough self-interest in the problem area to actually commit to > working on it. Rather than asking for people who have written an
And sometimes someone can be made to be interested by being paid. > autofsd to step forward, why not instead start working on this project > yourselves and ask for volunteers to HELP you address the problem? > That's taking on the problem from the right end, IMHO. I know a lot of people believe that "open source" means volunteer only. But, in fact, a lot of freely-provided code was paid for. I am not saying that this particular NIS improvement should be paid for, but I am saying that paying developers is another option. Even if a "funded" project is not completed; it can probably often help get the momentum needed to get volunteers to begin contributing. I wonder what it would be like if a few companies -- that are forced to use proprietary software due to certain needs -- would redirect their funds to getting the needed software developed (and donated) as open source. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message